The Italian Wikipedia (In Italian: Wikipedia in Italiano) is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in January, 2002 and has over 1 million articles.[1] It is currently the 4th largest edition by article count.

2011 mass blanking protest

From October 4 to October 6, 2011, all pages on the Italian Wikipedia project were redirected to this one-page Manifesto.

Volunteers on the Italian Wikipedia decided they did not like a proposed law[2] before the Italian Parliament. The proposal was from October 4 to October 6 2011. During this time, all of the site's articles were hidden. Wikipedia's administrators blocked the website[3] which was being debated at the time in the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian parliament.[4]

This was the first time that a Wikipedia had blanked all its content to protest.[5][6][7] The Wikimedia Foundation released a statement on October 4. The Foundation Board officially supported the short closing of Italian Wikipedia.[4] In October 2011, the manifesto, which replaced the Italian Wikipedia, had been viewed approximately 19 million times.[8] On October 6, 2011, the website content was put back. Wikipedia added a banner across the top of each page explaining the reason for the protest.[9]

Italian newspaper Il Tempo journalist Alberto Di Majo described the closure of the Italian-language Wikipedia as an "unexpected merit" of the proposed law.[10] Some people questioned whether a non-profit United States foundation should try to change laws written in Italy.[11]

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